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This sordid history would not bear repeating but for the fact that the media love to portray Paul as a truth-telling, antiwar Republican standing up to the “hawkish” conservative establishment. Otherwise, the newsletters, and Paul’s continued failure to name their author, would be mentioned in every story about him, and he would be relegated to the fringe where he belongs. But Paul has escaped the sort of media scrutiny that would bury other political figures. – Weekly Standard

The right to rise does not require a libertarian utopia to exist. Rather, it requires fewer, simpler and more outcome-oriented rules. Rules for which an honest cost-benefit analysis is done before their imposition. – Jeb Bush at WSJ

Newt Gingrich will fight Barack Obama. He will challenge him on every fact, and point out every failure.

[T]he administration wanted to use the excuse of increased violence on the border and weapons-smuggling into Mexico to justify tighter gun-control legislation. Mr. Holder is fighting ferociously to prevent important internal Justice documents from falling into the hands of congressional investigators.

Gingrich leads among conservatives and likely GOP primary voters. – Gallup Poll

Is he a Marxist socialist who has an agenda that’s oriented toward cutting the country down to size? I mean, that’s the question. For me, the answer to the question is irrelevant. I think that whatever he’s doing, why he’s doing it, it’s obvious he is doing it. He is taking steps, these 10 (ph) policies that are injurious to the country, injurious to individuals, targeting as the enemy the people who work in this country, targeting as the enemy that people that pay taxes.

Between the 58 congressmen demanding that Holder resign and those who have signed onto Gosar’s resolution, there are now a total of 85 members of Congress who don’t trust Holder in his office.

Obama and his cohorts — like Paulson, now replaced at Treasury by Timothy Geithner, another investment-bank rent boy — have not only failed in their approach to the recession, but they may be the architects of an economic calamity more painful than the Great Depression when all is said and done.

A significant chunk of Romney’s portfolio is tied up in Bain investments, and he continues to receive millions from his retirement package.

It’s not a very merry Christmas for Americans left jobless by Obama’s anti-capitalism policies.